Electro-photographic copier with strip-shaped latent-image carrier
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsRichard Wick, Josef Pfeifer, Gunther Schnall
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Abstract
An electro-photographic copier has a strip-shaped latent-image carrier which is payed out from a supply and taken up by a take-up. An image-forming station is provided at which an image of an original to be copied is formed on the image carrier, and a guide arrangement guides the image carrier on its way from the pay-out to the take-up in a path including at least adjacent the image-forming station a planar portion in which successive image-receiving increments of the image carrier travel past the station in substantially planar condition.
Claims9
In an electrophotographic copier, a combination comprising pay-out mezns for paying out a convoluted strip-shaped latent-image carrier;
- take-up means for taking up said carrier as the same is withdrawn from said pay-out means;
- an image-forming station for forming an image of an original to be copied on said image-carrier;
- and guide means for guiding said image carrier from said pay-out means to said take-up means in a path which includes at least adjacent said station a planar path portion wherein successive image-receiving increments of said image carrier travel past said station in substantially planar condition, said guide means comprising an articulated chain of support elements supporting said image carrier and having a width at least equal to the width of said image carrier, and guide elements laterally engaging and guiding said support elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.